LECTURE NOTES - GRAFFITI:
GRAFFITI:
Caves at Lascaux, FranceImages which has been starched into a cave wall.Drawing and paintings on cave walls from the Paleolithic period (17,300 year old).Discovered in 1940 by four teenagers.Depicting scenes of everyday life, hunting etc.Scratched in the walls with animal bones.Re-telling stories of the day.
ROMAN GRAFFITI - SCRATCHES AND MARKS FROM THE HUMAN FIGURE LOOK QUITE EFFECTIVE. IN MY OWN PERSONAL OPINION O DON'T FEEL THAT THIS IS GRAFFITI. THE USE OF USING A WALL ADDS A LITTLE, BUT THATS MAINLY BECAUSE THERE WHERE HARDLY ANYTHING TO WRITE ON AT THAT PERIOD.
20th century graffiti,
Caricature of a politician.Cartoon style drawing seems simple. If you look at features it seems to be mocking the figure as exaggerated chin and nose and forehead portrays. The drawing looks quite comical in some respects which does link to graffiti as that is meant to be seen as expression.
1970'S GRAFFITI STYLE - NYC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRbRc3ZeORw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8tOK8_NGg
THESE VIDEOS HELP TO EXPLAIN THE CULTURAL AND VISUAL ASPECTS OF URBAN GRAFFITI AT THAT TIME AND HOW IT INFLUENCED PEOPLES EXPRESSIONISTIC WAYS THE WHEREABOUTS OF BUILDING DRAWN ON ECT. FROM GANGS TO THE WAY THEY WORKED AND HOW GRAFFITI HELPED TO DEVLOP A BETTER SOCIETY IN DIFFERENT ASPECTS.
http://www.google.co.uk
Constant painting on railways and then the constant clean upPolitical statements, announcing presenceNewyork suburb at the timeMaking language of the streets visible.
http://hypebeast.com/2009/08/stussy-feature-jon-naar/
THIS VIDEO INVOLVES ARTIST SUSSY CATCHING THE PHOTOGRAPHER JON NAAR AT HIS BEST IN 1970'S PHOTOGRAPHY ON GRAFFITI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAMO©_Graffiti
SAMO© Graffiti appeared in New York City from 1977 to early 1980. They were short phrases, in turns poetic and sarcastic, mainly painted on the streets of downtown Manhattan. The tag SAMO© (pronounced Same-Oh) has been primarily associated with the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, but was developed mainly as a collaboration between Basquiat and Al Diaz, with help from a few friends. Diaz had previously been part of the New York graffiti scene, using the tag “Bomb I”. Later Basquiat took on the tag himself, creating some non-graffiti work on paper and canvas using that tag, just before and after killing off the SAMO graffiti by painting “SAMO© IS DEAD” around the streets of downtown in early 1980.
Basquiat claims the name was first developed in a stoned conversation with high school friend Al Diaz, calling the marijuana they smoked “the same old shit,” then shortening the phrase to "Same Old", then "SAMO".[1] The character of SAMO was first developed by Basquiat, Diaz, and Shannon Dawson (artist) while they were fellow students at City As School high school. Basquiat took the lead in creating a character called SAMO, selling a false religion, in comics made in high school. The concept was further developed in a theatre-as-therapy course in upper Manhattan (called “Family Life”) that was used by the trio as part of the City As School program. "Jean started elaborating on the idea and I began putting my thoughts into it," remembered Diaz.[2] Basquiat, Diaz, Shannon Dawson and Matt Kelly worked on a comic style endorsement of the false religion, photocopied as a pamphlet “Based on an original concept by Jean Basquiat and Al Diaz.”[3]
The City As School 1977-8 Yearbook includes a photo of the SAMO graffiti: SAMO@ AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO PLASTIC FOOD STANDS…
“It started…as a private joke and then grew” Diaz and Basquiat would later tell the Village Voice in an interview.[1] They took the joke out of the school, giving out small stickers with SAMO aphorisms or the SAMO pamphlet on paper on the subway, and writing down the phrases with marker pens as graffiti, often with an ironic copyright symbol attached. In 1977, while they were still students, Basquiat and Diaz started to put up the first SAMO© Graffiti in Manhattan.
Henry Flynt claims that Shannon Dawson (later of the band Konk) played a major part in the trio of writers in the first wave SAMO graffiti writers,[4] but most accounts, including those of Basquiat, claim the writing was done by the duo of Basquiat and Diaz.[3] When asked about other people, Basquiat said “No, No, it was me and Al Diaz.”[5] Basquiat remembers writing the tag with marker on the subway on the way back from Manhattan to Brooklyn, where he lived as a high school student, but unlike most of the graffiti taggers of the time, SAMO was primarily written on walls, not subway trains.
Al Diaz graduated from City As School in 1978, and Basquiat dropped out of school and left his father’s home in Brooklyn to spend time homeless and living with friends in Manhattan in June of that year. From that point the SAMO graffiti took off in lower Manhattan. SoHo, parts of East Village, and the area immediately around the School of Visual Arts were prime targets for the Graffiti.
The SoHo News noticed the graffiti, and published a few pictures of the idiomatic phrases with a query about who had done them. According to Henry Flynt, who photographed much of the graffiti, "The collective graffiti employed anonymity to seem corporate and engulfing. The tone was utterly different from the morose and abject tone of Basquiat's solo work. The implication was that SAMO© was a drug that could solve all problems. SOHO, the art world, and Yuppies were satirized with Olympian wit.".[4]
Diaz had been a young and early member of the New York graffiti scene of the 1970s, and his tag “Bomb I” was included in Norman Mailer’s famous book The Faith of Graffiti in 1974.[6]
By late 1978 the two were using spray paint to quickly get up larger phrases. “We would take turns coming up with the sayings” said Al Diaz.[3] Many of these retained the same ideas as the comic strip SAMO of high school:
- SAMO© SAVES IDIOTS AND GONZOIDS…
- SAMO©… 4
- THE INDIRECTLY INVOLVED,
- THE EASILY CONVINCED
- & THE BAFFLED…
But they also used it to make critical comments towards the art scene in SoHo and college students comfortably studying in art schools:
- SAMO©… 4 THE SO-CALLED AVANT-GARDE
- SAMO as an alternative 2 playing art with the ‘radical chic’ sect on Daddy’s$funds
Some of the comments seemed to look critically at consumer society as a whole:
- MICROWAVE & VIDEO X-SISTANCE
- “BIG-MAC” CERTIFICATE”
- FOR X-MASS…
- SAMO©
Jean-Michel Basquiat artist who represented the contemporary art scene of the 1980s more then anyone at that timeHe came to be known anomanously from been a homeless graffiti artistHe is known for spraying cryptic social messages on building walls around the City of New York.Began painting SAMO graffiti messages on walls around SoHo, 1977.He also collaborated with artist like Andy Warhol, David Bowie, he even dated Madonna for a short time.Andy Warhol then died in 1987, Feburary 22.
http://www.google.co.uk
Warhol and Basquait - Basquiat collaborated with Warhol General electric with waiter, 1984Critique of capitalism One of Americas largest corporationswhen Basquiat short died after Warhol that was known as the end of new york art scene in the 80s.
Keith Haring, radiant baby,1990
SAMO MOVED STYLE TO PAINTING.
STILL IN KEEPING WITH GRAFFITI STYLE - METHODS SUCH AS BRIGHT COLOURS/ QUICK PENCIL MARKS ETC.
Keith Haring, Subway drawing:
In 1981 he sketched his first chalk drawing on lack paper and painted plastic, metal and found objects.His work had a kind of DIY element using objects to create his workIn 1984 he visited Australia and painted wall murals in MelborneHe created his drawing in places like subway satins using materials already there
Influenced by subway graffiti on trains such as the Urban graffiti in 1970s."I immediately knew that I had to go above ground and buy chalk."-Haring, from interviews by John GruenMuch like And Warhol, he used Bold lines, Bright colours and simple subjects.His drawing show what he thought about racisum,gay rights and all political subjects.He has left his mark on pop art cultureI think hat his drawing were mostly remembered and admired from the simplicity of understanding the message through his unique use of bold,bright imagery.
John Feckner,Broken Promises,1980
BANKSY
http://www.banksy.co.uk/newoutdoors/outdoors.html
www.wikipedia.co.uk
Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.
His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique. Such artistic works of political and social commentary have been featured on streets, walls, and bridges of cities throughout the world.[1]
Banksy's work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.[2] According to author and graphic designer Tristan Manco and the book Home Sweet Home, Banksy "was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England.[3] The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s."[4] Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass, which maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s and is active today.[5][6][7]
Known for his contempt for the government in labeling graffiti as vandalism, Banksy displays his art on public surfaces such as walls and even going as far as to build physical prop pieces. Banksy does not sell photos of street graffiti directly himself;[8][9] however, art auctioneers have been known to attempt to sell his street art on location and leave the problem of its removal in the hands of the winning bidder.[10] Banksy's first film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, billed as "the world's first street art disaster movie," made its debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.[11] The film was released in the UK on 5 March 2010.[12] In January 2011, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary for the film.
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